Show CDP Neighbors

Command

Show CDP Neighbors

Use

This command lists the Cisco devices that are connected to your current device. CDP is a Cisco proprietary protocol and will only detect Cisco products, although there are some vendors that do work with it.
Additionally, LLDP was recently released, which is an industry standard of the Cisco Discovery Protocol and is supported on newer IOS.

Syntax

Router#show cdp neighbors

Example

In the below example we use show cdp neighbors to see what devices are directly connected to R2.